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My son is working at Scout camp all summer, and I am happy he went in as an unpaid counselor in training last year, because it helped him secure this position. He loves to teach younger kids, and is very good with them. Several of his friends did not get hired, because they did not show up at the designated time and day.

I wish jobs to all that want them.

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ďAll that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost."-J.R.R Tolkien

From experience: You (and most parents) are incredibly dumb starting about when your kids are about thirteen or fourteen and continuing until the early twenties, and then an AMAZING thing happens. As your children get older and older, in their eyes YOU get smarter and smarter! It's just the most astonishing phenomenon!

From experience: You (and most parents) are incredibly dumb starting about when your kids are about thirteen or fourteen and continuing until the early twenties, and then an AMAZING thing happens. As your children get older and older, in their eyes YOU get smarter and smarter! It's just the most astonishing phenomenon!

Yes, it's amazing that we ever managed to live long enough to HAVE teenagers, since we're all dumber than a stack of bricks.

The payback is when your now-adult children have teens of their own...

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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Common sense is not a gift, but a curse. Because thenyou have to deal with all the people who don't have it. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

The awesome CKIT at work that had 18 hours of college classes in a particular subject 25 years ago which means he can automatically refute hundreds of peer-reviewed research papers by, ya know, actual scientists who do this for a living.

His desk is right near mine, and I had to get up and go get a cup of tea to get away from that rant. Another co-worker made a coffee run at the same time for the same reason, and we rolled our eyes at each other.

There is a woman in my church who took a 2 week sign language course 20 years ago, so she knows much more than I, who has been working in the Deaf community for 25 years, could ever know.

She argue with me about the right way to sign things, and there is NO convincing her otherwise. Some of the signs she "knows" are wrong enough to be borderline dirty/insulting. I'm almost mean enough to bring a Deaf friend to meet her so she can show off her "skills".

My head hurts now.... I can only ever hope to get well enough at ASL that I can actually teach it.

I've posted before about my CKIA coworker who just has an obsessive-compulsive need to contradict me on every statement I make.

Most recently, we were all chatting and I mentioned that the pants I was wearing aren't my favorite, but I haven't been able to find a new pair of blue pants I like.

CKIA: "Those pants are NOT blue."Me: Sigh. "Yes, they are. But that's the not the point--"CKIA: "You're right, the point is that you don't even know your colors. Those pants are slate GREY."Other coworker: "You know, CKIA -- some people might call that color slate BLUE. Which is blue with a lot of grey." CKIA: "You're wrong too! I'm surrounded by people who don't even know their colors."